Margaret Crow, Prominent Art Philanthropist, Dies at 94

Margaret Crow, art collector, philanthropist and wife of famed developer Trammell Crow, died from natural causes at her home in Dallas Friday night, the Dallas Morning Newsreports . Crow and her husband were world travelers and amassed one of the best Asian art collections in the world, founding the Crow Collection of Asian Art to showcase it in 1998. Since then, the Crow Collection has established itself as one of the anchor museum tenants in the Dallas Arts District, helping push that area’s reputation for excellence.

Crow, who was a survivor of the SS Athenia when it became the first British ship sunk by a Nazi U-boat in World War II, leaves behind five children, many of whom are active supporters of the arts just as their parents were, including daughter Lucy Billingsley, owner of a prominent real estate company that operates out of the Arts District.

Lucia is an artist and writer based in Dallas. She is a frequent contributor to D Magazine's arts blog, FrontRow and a contributing editor and art adviser for D Home. She is also a founding member of the The Art Foundation, a Dallas-based artist collective that formed as an investigative endeavor that aims to cultivate artistic dialogue through concise critical and aesthetic explorations in the form of exhibitions, interventions and the written word. She is currently pursuing her MFA in sculpture at Texas Christian University.